A one-stop student resource covering all aspects of studying literature from the nature and main components of the subject and key terms, theory and approaches, to study skills and career pathways. The companion provides a gateway towider and more specialist reading and will be an essential resource for students to turn to time and time again. JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of 'Transitions 'and his publications include 'Introducing Literary Theories' (ed.), 'Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory,' 'Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory, ''Thinking Otherwise: Difference and Pedagogy'and 'Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities'. INDICE: - Acknowledgements - Preface: How to use the book - PART I: ABOUT LITERATURE - Literature: Fundamental Questions - Introduction; 'J.Wolfreys' -What is Literature?; 'B.Overton' - Why Study Literature?; 'K.Womack' - Your Literature Course - What to Expect from your English Course; 'J.Wolfreys' - Typical Structure and Content; 'J.Wolfreys' - Literature and Language; 'J.Wolfreys' - Literature and Creative Writing; 'J.Cooke' - Comparative Literature; 'D.Bremm' - Getting the Most from your Course: 'J.Wolfreys' - Study Skills for Literature - Introduction: 'J.Wolfreys' - Study Skills: 'C.Ringrose' - Writing and Presentation; 'J.Wolfreys' - PART II: LITERATURE MODULES - Literature - Introduction - Critical Studies: an Example of a Core Module; 'J.Wolfreys' - Periods - Old English Literature; 'P.Semper' - Medieval Literature; 'D.Griffith'- The Sixteenth Century; 'J.Fitzpatrick' - The Seventeenth Century; 'H.Adlington' - The Eighteenth Century; 'B.Overton' - Romanticism and Gothic; 'I.McCormick' - The Nineteenth Century and the Victorians; 'C.Kelley' - Modernism; 'A.Murray' - Forms, Genres and Other Popular Modules - Tragedy; 'J.Wolfreys' - Comedy; 'J.Wolfreys' - The Novel; 'H.Wright' - Poetry; 'B.Overton' - Drama; 'N.Swettenham '&' R.J.Brocklehurst' - Epic; 'N.Wood' - Lyric; 'N.Wood' - Satire; 'N.Wood' - Realism; 'L.Phillips' - Fiction; 'L.Phillips' - Contemporary and Postmodern Fiction; 'A.Murray' - Gender; 'D.Bremm' - Class; 'N.Freeman' - Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; 'J.Ramone' - Subjectivity; 'M.Becker-Leckrone' - Chidren's Literature; 'J.Bavidge' - Film Studies; 'A.Dix' - Popular Fiction;'J.Baetens' - American Literature; 'B.Jarvis '&' A.Dix' - Contemporary Literature; 'J.Wolfreys' - PART III: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT - Critical Approaches - Introduction; 'J.Wolfreys' - Formalism; 'M.Becker-Leckrone' - Archetypal Criticism; 'D.Bremm' - New Criticism; 'M.Becker-Leckrone' - Bakhtin and Dialogic Criticism; 'K.Zbinden' - Feminism; 'R.Robbins' - Marxism; 'A.Murray' - Structuralism; 'A.Murray' - Psychoanalysis; 'B.Jarvis' - Deconstruction; 'M-D.Dick' - Postcolonialism; 'J.Ramone' - New Historicism; 'C.Ringrose' - Cultural Materialism; 'A.Murray' - African American Criticism; 'A.Dix' - Chicano/a Studies; 'J.Ramone' - Gay Studies and Queer Theory; 'H.Davies' - Cultural Studies; 'B.Jarvis' - Ecocriticism; 'J.Bavidge' - Postmodernism; 'A.Dix' - PART IV: KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS; 'R.Robbins, J.Wolfreys '&' K.Womack' - PARTV: CAREER PATHWAYS - Introduction; 'J.Wolfreys' - Careers for English Graduates; 'R.Robbins' - The Experience of a Degree in English; 'C.Bowditch' - Interview, Conducted by Claire Bowditch - Conclusion; 'J.Wolfreys' - PART VI: LEARNING RESOURCE; 'J.Wolfreys' - Chronology - List of Contributors - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-00813-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido